Trust hernan diaz summary6/4/2023 ![]() An enraged public views Benjamin as “the hand behind the invisible hand.” The press depicts him as “a vampire, a vulture, or a pig.” Helen, insulated until now by her philanthropy, sees that “she would pay for the suffering that had helped make her husband rich beyond measure.” As the Rasks amass greater wealth, their private lives fall apart. Their fortune grows in spite of-or perhaps because of-the 1929 stock market crash. Benjamin has new money, Helen an old name. Trust revolves around a secretive wealthy couple, the Rasks. Who holds wealth, and why? And how does capital-like a “living creature following appetites of its own trying to exercise its free will”-shape the stories we tell? But Diaz avoids allegory in favor of enduring questions. Diaz trains his eye on the wealthy New Yorkers of the Great Depression to tell a story of our time: capital’s inexorable march in the face of economic crisis. Hernan Diaz’s Trust, like his Pulitzer-finalist debut In the Distance (2017), is historical fiction that thrums with the energy of today’s crises. ![]()
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